Answered From 24 Years of Prayer.

After praying a good portion of 24 years and soliciting the prayers of others for one, the healing of my husband's broken heart and two, the associated bitterness and anger to be gone, I finally asked God why my prayer wasn't yet answered. It was then that I saw the manifestation of unbelief and asking amiss.

This is the paraphrase of my experience with this subject

"God, why, after 24 years praying for this and still it is not answered?"

"Because my Church is suffering from a broken heart and she is harboring a spirit of bitterness."

'Wow...okay.'

Then 3 months later, "What am I praying wrong that this prayer is still not answered?"

"Because you are asking amiss." was God's immediate reply and as I was pondering this information and before I even asked He said, "You ask for yourself and what you will benefit from this prayer being answered."

"OK." So, then, I started to pray for the sake of our children. Again, about 3 months later I asked, "Now what am I praying wrong?"

"You are still praying for his heart to be healed for your own selfish reasons."

I, again, assumed I knew what He meant by that and started (trying anyway) to pray genuinely and purely for Tom's benefit. This time only about 1 month passed before I asked, "NOW WHAT? WHAT IS IT YOU WANT ME TO PRAY?"

Are you able you hear the realness starting to develop in my fervor for this prayer to be answered? I can just imagine the Father quietly saying, 'FINALLY!'

God told me, "When you are able to pray for My Name's sake and for My glory only that this be accomplished and you can be trusted with properly handling My glory when this prayer is answered, and that you will not take any credit for this answered prayer."

He expounded a little more but suffice it to say, n conclusion, "I will share My glory with no one."

'This is the truth He expressed for my serious consideration. I finally had ears to hear these thoughts from God. He prepared the way. Beforehand, I had heard a sermon and later learned during Beth Moore's Breaking Free course: God will not share His glory with anyone. And for a person to take any portion of God's glory for himself is the ultimate pride and the guarantee of his downfall.